Americans spend less of their income on food than almost ever. Why doesn’t it feel that way?
Everything about the American economy right now feels weird. The hiring picture is weird; the stock market is weird; and ...
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Wikipedia is having a renaissance in the age of AI
If you grew up with computers in your classroom, there’s a good chance you heard this instruction before starting a ...
Credit card theft, penis injections, and other weird scandals from the 2026 Olympic Games
Generally speaking, the athlete stories that come out of the Olympic Games are about the countless hours spent on the ...
France’s extremely talented and extremely controversial ice dancers, explained
When Olympic ice dance pair Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillame Cizeron take to the ice on Wednesday, they’ll do so ...
Bad Bunny’s unapologetically American Super Bowl show
You don’t have to speak Spanish to understand that Bad Bunny’s blockbuster Super Bowl halftime show was a powerful one: ...
The appalling spectacle surrounding Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance
A heavy feeling has loomed over the Today show for the past week: Co-anchor Savannah Guthrie has been noticeably absent ...
Why American “quad god” Ilia Malinin skates like no one else
Figure skating is nothing without tension. Humans speed across slick ice, balancing on a thin metal blade and making sharp ...
Why is Gen Z so obsessed with the 2010s?
At the start of this year, it seemed like everybody was reminiscing about the year 2016. In January alone, Spotify ...
America’s culture wars are killing people overseas
Nurse Matild Zainab Kamara displays some contraceptive products used during family planning counselling sessions at the Planned Parenthood Sexual Reproductive ...
How the supermarket’s cheapest fish became Gen Z’s latest obsession
If it feels like your algorithm is being hijacked by tiny, silver fish, you’re not just seeing things; sardines are ...
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